Heeding criticism not only a virtue but also shrewd

Editor's note: The United States administration blinded by its "America first" ideology, has wielded its tariff stick against other countries, regardless of the strong opposition both at home and abroad. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

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Taking China-India ties to new heights

Starting his second term in office, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed a second China-India informal summit in Varanasi later this year. Varanasi is not only a culturally important city for Indians and one of the oldest cities in the world but also the constituency that elected Modi to parliament.

Australia should make efforts to improve relations

Editor's Note: The Liberal National coalition won the majority in the May 18 Australian election. However, many say the defeat of the opposition Labor Party is not conducive to improving Sino-Australian relations. Is this true? Or, will the new Australian coalition government help improve Sino-Australian ties? Two experts share their views with China Daily's Pan Yixuan. Excerpts follow:

US universities should resist Red Scare on campuses

Recent cases of persecuting Chinese and Chinese American scientists for alleged China ties show that the Red Scare has been spreading fast in US institutions of higher education, places that should be totally free of the government's political interference.

China will not be bullied into submission

In a thinly veiled warning that Beijing will not rule out using rare earths as a weapon to counter US attacks against Chinese high-tech companies such as Huawei, an official from the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planner, said in an interview on Tuesday that "if any country wants to use products made of China's rare earth exports to contain China's development, the Chinese people would not be happy with that".

Decline in visits due to America's cold shoulder

Tourists from the Chinese mainland like destinations that are convenient, secure, and friendly.

Heck of a coincidence that Huawei deliveries 'misrouted' by FedEx

TWO PACKAGES CONTAINING COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS sent from Tokyo to Huawei's office on the Chinese mainland on May 19 and 20, and two other parcels mailed from Hanoi, Vietnam, to Huawei's branches in Hong Kong and Singapore respectively on May 17 all found their way to the United States through the package delivery services of FedEx. China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:

This might be shortest geological era

THE ANTHROPOCENE WORKING GROUP, composed of 34 renowned scientists from around the world, voted this week to designate a new geologic epoch to mark the profound ways in which humans have altered the planet. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

By eating its words US is destroying its own credibility

Editor's note: "Honesty is the best policy", some politicians in Washington seem to have forgotten Benjamin Franklin's famous words, as they have flip-flopped in the trade talks with China. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

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Trade conflict suggests hard times ahead

The escalating China-US trade friction is unprecedented in the history of bilateral relations. True, when trade begins, trade friction begins, too. And the history of China-US relations since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979 has been a history of bilateral trade frictions. But the trade frictions in the 1980s were relatively small and less damaging.